Microsoft Excel has four cell modes—Ready, Enter, Edit, and Point. Having the correct cell mode activated is crucial for effective data entry management, formula creation, and cell modification, and ...

Your summarizations, analyses, projections, reports and so on, are only as good as your data. It’s important that you use every resource available to protect the validity of the data, which means you ...

The Alt+Enter shortcut isn't limited to new formulas you write—you can go back and clean up any messy formulas at any time.

Discover how Excel's Goal Seek reverses calculations to find input values from known outcomes and enhances your data analysis skills.

Three ways to control Excel’s cursor movement during data entry Your email has been sent Data entry can be a thankless job and if Excel doesn’t cooperate, it can be a hateful job. Fortunately, you can ...

Microsoft Excel is an incredibly capable and complex spreadsheet program. If you’re just getting your feet wet, these tips will help you get started on making a spreadsheet and writing a formula. Once ...

Properly formatting expressions such as "H2O" in your Excel spreadsheet requires the use of subscripts. Subscript formatting makes a letter or number appear smaller and slightly below the rest of the ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Return on investment (ROI) measures the amount of ...